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WSJ reports that China is eyeing potential assistance in cracking down on the fentanyl trade in North America as a possible pretext for starting China-U.S. trade negotiations. Fentanyl overdoses take the lives of dozens of thousands of people in the U.S. and Canada annually. China is a key player in the North American fentanyl market. According to unnamed sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, China may propose cooperation on the fentanyl crisis as an “off-ramp from hostilities” to foster dialogue with the Trum administration. Potentially, China has a resource to tackle the North American fentanyl problem as its role in this crisis and market is essential. Reportedly, Chinese chemical companies export fentanyl precursors and provide consultations to Americans wishing to synthesize the drug on online forums. China may hope for dialogue as the role of fentanyl was explicitly cited by Donald Trump when he motivated imposing the harshest tariffs on China, the only country not granted a 90-day tariff pause. The dialogue between China and the U.S. is not impossible, as recently Trump himself said, “it’s a natural thing to ask,” referring to asking China to assist in solving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. REPORTER: Will you be asking China to help you close the gap between Ukraine and Russia?PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think so. If we can get the fighting stopped that would be a great accomplishment. We're trying very hard and I think we're close. pic.twitter.com/U5G0xwIhHu— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) May 8, 2025 Fentanyl crisis statistics Terms like “fentanyl crisis” and “fentanyl epidemic” are no exaggeration. The word “tragedy” also fits. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used medically as an anesthetic but far more potent than heroin or morphine. In the 2010s, recreational use of fentanyl exploded in North America, resulting in hundreds of overdose deaths daily. At the peak in 2022, the fatal overdoses on synthetic opioids (mostly fentanyl) reached nearly 80,000 in the U.S. alone.  In Canada, with its 5x lower population, the numbers are not as high as in the U.S. For instance, 2023 was marked with around 6,000 deaths related to fentanyl. However, if we look at the deaths per 100,000 of the population, we’ll see that Canada is close to the U.S.  Most of the victims of overdose are men under 45 years old, but the number of elders among fentanyl casualties is on the rise. The crisis affected both men and women of all ages, including preschoolers. These numbers may seem too huge to realize the scale of the tragedy. To get a more vivid and striking idea of this epidemic’s deadliness, we may think that at the peak, it was killing one person per hour in Canada and one person every seven minutes in the U.S. Although after 2022 both the U.S. and Canada saw a drop in fentanyl deadly overdoses, the epidemic scale is still damning. Council on Foreign Relations notes that the 2022 fentanyl death count is 10x bigger than the total casualties of the U.S. army in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Comparisons to wars don’t look misplaced. The death toll in the fentanyl crisis is in line with the number of deaths in the most dismaying military conflicts of the 2020s: in Sudan, Gaza, Yemen, and Ukraine. Somehow, North America reached the point at which it has war-scale casualties, while it doesn’t participate in a war. Except for the U.S. trade war. Two countries subjected to the harshest tariffs are the key players in the fentanyl trade in America: China and Mexico. Another country that faced high tariffs is Canada. Fentanyl from Canadian Valerian Labs was a part of the problem too. Read more:U.S. DOJ indicts eight Chinese firms for using crypto in fentanyl trade Fentanyl trade: China, Mexico, and cryptocurrency In 2022, the Drug Enforcement Agency called China the prime source of fentanyl killing Americans. The drug is sent to North America from China by mail or through Mexico. Two years later, a Congressional committee claimed that China is subsidizing the production of fentanyl precursors that then turn into illicit drugs in North America. The report reads: “The PRC (People’s Republic of China) scheduled all fentanyl analogues as controlled substances in 2019, meaning that it currently subsidizes the export of drugs that are illegal under both U.S. and PRC law. [Some of the substances] have no known legal use worldwide.” Chinese authorities deny responsibility for the crisis and claim to have cooperated with U.S. enforcement efforts to suppress trafficking. AG Pam Bondi sounds the alarm: “People in China don't get addicted to fentanyl because they're shipping it to our country to kill 18-34-year-olds… It is a weapon of mass destruction in my opinion… They're killing our kids and it's got to stop.”pic.twitter.com/ehrO54syDN— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) May 5, 2025 Meanwhile, cryptocurrency is playing a dual role. A February 2025 Chainalysis report highlighted how digital assets both facilitate and expose the fentanyl trade. On darknet markets, fentanyl and its precursors are often sold for Bitcoin or Monero. Chainalysis noted that some buyers and sellers don’t anonymize their activity, allowing analysts to map out trafficking networks. Cryptocurrency enables remote drug purchases and money laundering but also provides transparency that cash doesn’t. “While the cartel may have benefitted from speed, low transaction fees, and cross-border efficiency, their reliance on the blockchain has allowed investigators to trace these transactions more easily than would have been possible with traditional cash-based money laundering. Furthermore, it allows even greater disruptive potential, because issuers and centralized services typically have the ability to freeze assets when necessary.” That’s an unobvious way in which crypto facilitates drug trafficking and helps to disrupt the illicit substance markets at the same time. Conclusion Whether China is truly willing or able to dismantle its transcontinental fentanyl supply chain remains unclear. Still, it’s a powerful bargaining chip as trade talks with the Trump administration loom. In 2019, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Cronin put it bluntly: “It is a fact that if the People’s Republic of China wanted to shut down the synthetic opioid industry, they could do so in a day.” You might also like:Fentanyl ‘precursors’ made $32m in crypto last year, report says

据联合创始人 Adeniyi Abiodun 称，Sui 是由 Mysten Labs 开发的 Layer-1 区块链，正在为 2025 年的变革奠定基础。 Sui (SUI) 在 2024 年取得了强劲进展，取得了亚秒级交易终结性以及去中心化金融和游戏领域的增长等成就，并加强了对可扩展性、功能性和开发人员友好型工具的关注。 根据 Abiodun 的 X 帖子，Sui 更新的核心是 Mysticeti V2。Mysticeti V2 是一种升级的共识机制，旨在简化交易处理。 通过减少加密操作并最小化验证器通信，Mysticeti V2 旨在提供更快的交易和更高的吞吐量。 你可能还喜欢：SEC 代理主席 Uyeda 启动加密货币特别工作组 实时改进 与此相辅相成的是 Remora，这是一种水平扩展解决方案，可将验证器工作负载分配到多台机器上。测试表明，Remora 每秒能够处理数十万笔交易，其目标是在网络扩展时保持较低的费用。 Sui 还利用可编程点对点隧道（一种可消除延迟并提高吞吐量的链下交易系统）推进去中心化应用。这使得游戏和支付等实时应用更加实用。 https://t.co/vznDVukrUsâ Adeniyi.sui (@EmanAbio) 2025 年 1 月 21 日 隐私增强是另一个重点领域。Sui 正在与卡内基梅隆大学合作整合零知识证明，以增强隐私功能。 你可能还喜欢：Circle 收购 Hashnote 以进行代币化扩张 贮存 在存储方面，Sui 计划在 2025 年初推出 Walrus。与传统的区块链存储解决方案不同，Walrus 提供与智能合约直接绑定的可编程、可扩展存储。此功能使 dApp 能够存储大型文件，例如用户生成的内容或 AI 模型。 为了增强安全性，Sui 引入了 SEAL，这是一个允许开发人员为存储的数据设置精确访问条件的框架，确保隐私和控制。 另一个重点是连接性。Sui 正在集成 SCION，这是一种安全路由协议，旨在保护网络免受分布式拒绝服务攻击和 BGP 劫持等互联网漏洞的影响。这确保了 Sui 的验证器网络在高需求情况下保持稳健可靠。 Sui 正在推出新工具来提升开发者体验。由 GraphQL 提供支持的 RPC 2.0 简化了数据查询，而由 AI 驱动的 Bugdar 工具可实时识别漏洞。此外，Sui Move Prover 使开发者无需大量技术专业知识即可验证智能合约的安全性。

随着网络数据活动的增加，草币价格连续三天上涨，达到自 2 月 23 日以来的最高水平。 Grass（GRASS）飙升至 2.10 美元的高位，较今年最低点上涨了 122%，市值超过 5 亿美元。 持续上涨的动力来自每日抓取的数据量。在 2 月 15 日突破 100 万 GB 后，该数字在周三升至 132 万 GB 的新高。考虑到今年年初的数据量为 2,600 GB，这一数据一直呈强劲上升趋势。 自成立以来，Grass 通过抓取超过 1.097 亿个 IP 地址和索引 44.7 亿个 URL 不断扩展其网络。 草地数据作废 | 资料来源：草地 你可能还喜欢：恐惧指数跌至 2022 年水平，本周比特币价格下跌 12% 该网络为实现这些指标付出了巨大努力。它于本月初启动了 Grass Sion 升级，增强了其抓取和处理多模式网络数据的能力。此次升级还改进了其抓取算法，引入了水平计算扩展，并将其扩展容量提高到每天 1 PB。 草系赛恩升级– 网络升级显著增强了@getgrass_io网络大规模抓取和处理多模式网络数据（文本、图像和 4K 视频）的能力。– 改进了抓取算法，无需额外的计算，从而大幅增加数据量……pic.twitter.com/yE6ZFU5VMB— R🐮 (@Ren_gmi) 2025 年 2 月 6 日 Grass 计划在 2024 年取得比现在更大的成就，2024 年其用户群从 20 万增长到 300 万。除了 Sion 升级外，开发人员还计划推出一款独立的 Web 应用程序，并弃用 Chrome 扩展程序。 草价预测 草价图 | 来源：crypto.news 日线图显示，GRASS 代币价格在 1 月份触底至 0.9130 美元，随后反弹至目前的 2 美元水平。目前价格略高于 25 日移动平均线，这是一个积极信号。 最重要的是，Grass 的价格形成了扩音器模式，其特点是两条上升和发散的趋势线。这种模式通常预示着强劲的看涨突破，在这种情况下，如果价格突破 2.30 美元的上阻力位，就会得到确认。 这样的突破可能预示着进一步上涨，有可能将价格推向历史高点 3.9170 美元，较当前水平上涨 96%。然而，跌破 1.60 美元的较低支撑位将使看涨前景失效。 你可能还喜欢：随着烧钱率飙升，LUNC 价格可能飙升 300%，但有一个问题

著名比特币分析师 PlanB 证实将 BTC 持有量转移到 ETF。此举引发了加密货币社区关于自我托管的讨论。 这位以其存量比特币 (BTC) 价格模型而闻名的分析师表示，管理的便利性和内心的平静是他做出这一决定的关键因素。 PlanB 在向其 200 万 X 粉丝发帖称，通过 ETF 来管理比特币以及股票和债券等传统投资更适合他的需求。 “不用为钥匙烦恼让我感到很安心，”他表示，并承认这已经偏离了流行的“不是你的钥匙，就不是你的硬币”的格言。 我已将我的比特币转移到 ETF。是的，我知道，不是你的钥匙，不是你的硬币。但对我来说，像管理股票和债券一样管理比特币更容易。此外，不用费心管理钥匙让我安心。我想我不再是超级富豪了。— PlanB (@100trillionUSD) 2025 年 2 月 15 日 PlanB 披露影响此举的荷兰税收结构 当被问及税收影响时，PlanB 透露，他的决定受到荷兰税收结构的影响，该税收结构没有对已实现利润征收资本利得税。 ETF 等机构选择提供专业管理，但需要信任第三方进行资产托管。 阅读更多：加密货币专家表示，这是一种值得与 Solana 一起购买的有前途的山寨币

NodeOps, a top blockchain node orchestration platform, has announced a major milestone as it becomes a key validator partner for several enterprises in the crypto venture capital space. In an announcement, NodeOps said it had partnered with Maven 11, Spartan Group, Bitscale Capital, Momentum 6, and ARC Community, among other enterprises. The platform is now a key node operator for these firms, bringing its plug-and-play Node-as-a-Service solution to more industry players. NodeOps’ traction as a validator has seen it attract more than 705,000 verified users. “Trusted by enterprises and institutional-grade validators alike, NodeOps combines real-time AI-powered monitoring with top-notch security, simplicity, and scalability,” Naman Kabra, co-founder and chief executive officer of NodeOps said.  “As companies are moving away from managing their own infrastructure, NodeOps is becoming the preferred partner for those seeking reliability and future-ready solutions,” he added.  Data from Dune showed the platform netted more than $460k in revenue over 30 days. The milestone puts NodeOps among the top three platforms by revenue in the decentralized physical infrastructure network market. The validator platform’s total revenue, per Dune data, currently stands at over $3.6 million. You might also like:Vaulta and Ultra join forces to power the future of web3 gaming As crypto.news highlighted, NodeOps’ total revenue surpassed $2.5 million in February 2025. Growth has come amid rising institutional adoption. Month-on-month revenue has grown from $180,000 in February to $388,000 in March and $547,000 in April. NodeOps is self-sustainable, with its revenue coming from its core functionality and offerings, as opposed to tapping into the traditional token-based approach. The $NODE token serves as the network’s economic backbone, driving decentralization and ecosystem growth. Meanwhile, NodeOps has over 113,000 monthly active users, with MAU subscriptions rising amid a surge of partner chains to 51. Key partners include EigenLayer, Aethir, OffChain Labs, Polygon, 0G Labs, and Movement Labs, among others. NodeOps currently boasts about $90 million in assets under management. You might also like:What to know about IOTA’s Rebased upgrade: deprecated Firefly wallets, changes in validator tokenomics